I'm not so sure about "out of the planning stage". When a large community college district located in Southern California shot themselves in the foot (IMHO) and dumped their 370/158 for a Honeywell Series 6000 (without Multics, but GCOS 7 + TSS) in the early 1980's, a "B" language compiler came with the system.
(The experiences with this Honeywell eventually led to an historic event - the low bidder _not_ getting a contract - when Prime was awarded a contract for minis to replace Xerox 530s, over the Honeywell Series 6 - which had the audacity to crash during benchmarking under a load of less than 10 users, thus the benchmark was never completed. Honeywell threatened legal action for not getting the bid but eventually realized that they did not have a case since they had not completed the benchmark.) Later, Ray -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Monday January 15 2007 20:34 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules . At 12:56 -0500 on 01/15/2007, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password: > >Isn't "C" the language that grades itself? > >Then why isn't it called F? Because after they got C going that did not want to risk creating a D to replace it (but went on to C+ and then C++ [getting "Better" each time]). You do know that C was proceeded by a B (which never made it out of the planning stage). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
